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Arriving early? There are dozens of exciting reasons why you might want to arrive in Seattle a few days before the conference! Housing, food, and transport choices will be yours to make, but we have plenty of advice and hospitality to welcome you to the great Emerald City and Puget Sound area. Please send questions about Seattle or the conference to alcmseattle@alcm.org or call 800.624.2526. We will do our best to assist you. Early housing is also available at both Seattle University and the Red Lion Hotel.
So, if you wish to arrive early, consider these options!
Friday/Saturday, July 29-30, 2011
Augsburg Fortress Clinic at Trinity Lutheran Church, Lynnwood.
Saturday, July 30
7:00-9:00pm Festival Choir rehearsal for Monday evening Hymn Festival
Sign up on Registration form. All three rehearsals (Saturday, Sunday, and Monday) are mandatory if you wish to sing in the choir.
Sunday, July 31
Morning worship options/locations at local congregations.
Afternoon
1:00 pm Early registration for fesival choir members
2:00-6:00pm Registration open – Pigott Atrium
Display exhibits open – Pigott Atrium
Food/drink available for purchase at The Bottom Line – Pigott Atrium
2:30-4:30pm Festival Choir rehearsal (second rehearsal) for Monday evening Hymn Festival.
5:00pm Dinner on your own
Evening
6:15pm Buses leave for Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church, Seattle
7:00pm Service of the Word with Thanksgiving for Baptism
9:30 pm Compline and Organ Recital at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral
This half hour Compline worship in Seattle has become something of a phenomenon, with upwards of 500 people (many in their teens and early twenties) attending the service. Following Compline, a half hour informal organ recital will be played on the Flentrop pipe organ by Faythe Freese, Associate Professor of Music at the University of Alabama School of Music. Preceding Compline there will be a short demonstration of the Paul Fritts pipe organ in the Cathedral's Chapel.
Monday, August 1
Morning
8:00-8:30am Morning Prayer at three SU locations: Campion Hall Chapel, Casey Building Atrium, St. Ignatius Chapel
9:00 Plenary: Abundance - at Pigott Auditorium
Teacher: Christian Scharen, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN
Pastor: Pamela Fickenscher, Co-Pastor, Edina Lutheran Church, Edina, MN
Abundance of music, style and presentation: What kind of God do we worship and what sort of creation has this God made? What is abundance? Is “more” better? Do more opportunities mean more connections? We consider the fullness, beauty and diversity of creation.
10am-6pm Exhibits open
11:00am Regional Gatherings
11:45 Lunch and Business Meeting
This meal is provided to all conference registrants
Afternoon
Exhibit break
Workshops A (offered from 3:00-4:00 and repeated from 4:30-5:30)
WA1 Creativity & Healing: Complementary Arts of God's Kingdom - Thomas Keesecker
WA2 Crafting the Choral Rehearsal: Techniques for Effective Teaching - Zebulon Highben
WA3 Let Every Instrument Be Tuned for Praise: Unusual Instruments - Jerry Gunderson
WA4 Expanding Worship & Use of Media: How Much Is Too Much? - Mark Glaeser
WA5 'New' Worship from an 'Old' Lutheran Perspective - Aaron L. Christie
WA6 Children's Choir Resources: Repertoire & Training - Jim Rindelaub
WA7 Beyond Word & Song: Participant-Driven Worship Planning - Carole Lea Arenson
WA8 Project Fund-Raising 101: Understanding the Fundamentals - Ann Sponberg Peterson
WA9 The French Connection: French Classical Performance Practice - Gregory Peterson
WA10 Expanding Liturgy with Handbells: What Works with Less than a Full Choir? - Scott Barker
5:00pm Dress rehearsal for Hymn Festival (third and final rehearsal)
All choir members must attend.
Evening
Dinner on your own
7:30 pm Hymn Festival
In word and song, celebrate God’s continually unfolding creative abundance. Alleluia!
ALCM presents an Ecumenical Hymn Festival featuring John Ferguson and Anton Armstrong at St. James Roman Catholic Cathedral, Seattle.
9:00-11:00 pm Evening cash bar reception and exhibits - Pigott Atrium
Tuesday, August 2
Morning
8:00 am Morning Prayer at several SU locations.
9:00 am Plenary: Challenge - at Pigott Auditorium
Christian Scharen, teacher
Pamela Fickenscher, pastor
Challenge of discernment breadth and quality: Private choice? Individual taste? Within the framework of social and cultural analysis, we take up the tensions and challenges set forth by the abundance before us, and seek wisdom and discernment in preparation and nurture of communal worship and song.
10:00-5:30 pm Exhibits open
11:00 am Panel Discussion: Discernment - what music should we choose?
Moderator: Paul Westermeyer
Panel: Lorraine Brugh for ALCM, Aaron Christie for WELS, David Johnson for LC-MS, Donald Nevile for ELCIC, Scott Weidler for ELCA
With the abundance of music available, how do we discern what is appropriate for our local assembly?
12:15 pm Lunch
Afternoon
1:30 pm Reading Session I – Choral
Selected Adult Choral Music and Choir Workshop:
David Cherwien, Director of the National Lutheran Choir
Workshops B (offered from 2:45-3:45 and repeated from 4:15-5:15)
WB1 Late 20th Century Giants: They Shaped What We Sing, Play, and Pray - Scott Hyslop
WB2 101 Ways to Build Your Best Choral Library - Tom Leeseberg-Lange
WB3 An Abundance of Choral Repertoire for the Modest-Sized Choir - Beth Ann Bonnecroy
WB4 Church Music and Aesthetics: How It Helps Understand Today's Issues - Donald C. Nevile
WB5 Non-Traditional Worship Songs: Beyond "Lord, I Lift Your Name On High" - John Helgen
WB6 The Changing Face of Music Publishing - Mark W. Lawson
WB7 The Nuts and Bolts of Introducing Children to the Song Eternal - Rebekah Gilmore
WB8 You Don't Have Congas? Leading Cross-Cultural Hymnody from the Organ - John Ferguson
WB9 ALCM at 25: Where Do We Go From Here? - Nancy Raabe
WB10 Youth Choirs: Creative Ministry Opportunities - Erik Whitehill
Evening
Seattle Center Evening featuring the Space Needle
A fabulous evening at the Space Needle and downtown Seattle with flexibility in the design of your evening. ALCM's main venue at the Space Needle will be the SkyLine Level from 6:30 to 10:00pm. Come and go as you wish.
Light appetizers, cash bar, and entertainment on the SkyLine Level beginning at 6:30pm
Dessert, cash bar, and entertainment at the SkyLine Level beginning at 8pm.
Dinner on your own at area restaurants or Seattle Center Food Court. A restaurant guide will be provided. Reservations may be required at some locations, i.e. the Space Needle's own Sky City Restaurant; Check the website of the restaurant of your choice for details.
Access all evening to the Space Needle's Observation Deck; providing the Observation Deck is not rented to a private party on August 2.
Sculpture Park and other Seattle landmarks are just a short walk from the Space Needle. Monorail runs during the evening ($4 round trip). Experience Music Project (EMP) closes at 7 pm; Pike Place Market closes at 6 pm.
Continuous shuttle circuit from Seattle University to the Space Needle to the Red Lion Hotel available until 10:00 pm.
9:30 pm Night Prayer – Seattle University
Wednesday, August 3
Morning
8:00 am Morning Prayer at several SU locations
9:00 am Plenary: Joy – at Pigott Auditorium
Christian Scharen, teacher
Pamela Fickenscher, pastor
Joy in resources, opportunities and abilities: Clearer about the task of discernment, we move joyfully, openly and boldly into the abundance and creativity of this moment – mission-minded, for the sake of the world.
11:00 am Reading Session 2 – Organ
Faythe Freese, Associate Professor of Music at the University of Alabama School of Music
10:30-1:30 pm Exhibits open
Afternoon
1:30 pm Buses to Bastyr Chapel
2:30 pm Bastyr University Chapel Concert, featuring Male Ensemble Northwest.
4:30 pm Closing Worship:
Festival Holy Communion at Trinity Lutheran Church, Lynnwood
Thomas Schattauer and Daniel Schwandt, leaders
6:00 pm Bus from Trinity Lutheran to SU for dinner
Evening
7:00 pm Outdoor BBQ with Cash Bar at SU - this meal is provided to all conference registrants.
Thursday, August 4
Post-Conference Master Classes
8:30 am Morning Session
12:00 noon Lunch on your own
1:00 pm Afternoon Session
4:30 pm Post-conference ends
